Assessing Herd Immunity in the Elderly Following the Vaccination of School Children with Live Attenuated Trivalent Influenza Vaccine (LAIV): A County-Level Analysis
Abstract
Immunizing children could reduce influenza in the elderly. We compared pneumonia and influenza hospitalizations (P&I) and medically attended acute respiratory infections (MAARI) in the Medicare populations in 1 Tennessee and 3 Minnesota counties that immunized school children with live, attenuated influenza vaccine with 4 comparison counties. The P&I rate ratio (RR) of intervention county/comparison county in Tennessee in 2005-06 was 0.74 (95%...
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Title
Assessing Herd Immunity in the Elderly Following the Vaccination of School Children with Live Attenuated Trivalent Influenza Vaccine (LAIV): A County-Level Analysis
Published Date
Jan 1, 2010
Journal
Volume
2
Issue
1
Pages
92 - 100
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